Black Saturday recovery fund gets extension

A program helping people affected by the Bendigo Black Saturday fire is being extended until February next year.

The essential infrastructure replacement project allows bushfire-affected residents to replace infrastructure destroyed in the fire such as water tanks, fencing and shedding.

The Lions Club and Bendigo Bank's philanthropic arm, the Community Enterprise Foundation, is funding the program.

The Bendigo Bushfire Action Group's Paul Epworth says it is been a significant help.

"There's just some things insurance or whatever didn't cover," he said.

"For a group like Lions Australia, or [Central Victoria's] surrounding communities to give that money to the Bendigo Bank to join that money together, so we can replace a shed or some fences or whatever, is just wonderful."